Fogdog
Well-Known Member
I understand tantrums in children and young adults. By the time a person approaches 30, not so much. Anger isn't the same as resolve to correct a wrong. Anger or fearful people fall back on sterotypes and conventional solutions. "I'm mad as hell and not going to take it anymore". Silly and childish thinking. Nothing wrong with getting hot now and then but the reaction to getting angry should be to take care not to do anything rash. We can't all be MLK but what I hear from Paddy is celebration of anger. His judgement was already suspect. It's not suspect any more.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/09/the-best-headspace-for-making-decisions/500423/
Where fear breeds uncertainty, anger instills confidence. Angry people are more likely to put the blame on individuals, rather than “society,” or fate. Anger makes people more likely to take risks and to minimize how dangerous those risks will be. Other researchers have shown that angry people rely more on stereotypes and are more eager to act.
Anger simplifies our thinking. People switch to rules of thumb—ban all the Muslims!—instead of carefully considering refugee policy and its implications.
“Right now, we shouldn’t be thinking in a shallow way,” Lerner said. “Now, we need to be thinking about very specific policy tradeoffs. Anger gets you in the game, but once you’re in the game, you need to think.”
There you have it.
Overconfidence. As in Paddy's rambling statements about what people believe and what people are planning and what will happen next. Nobody knows what's going to happen.
Reversion to stereotypes. Paddy continuously uses fake sterotypes about his percieved enemies. His rants against the Democratic Party is also an example of weak anger driven thinking.
He will always be a loser if what he says here represents his world view.
